Another 11.5 million quid we don't have, being spent thanks to the "benefits" of immigration

FROM..... http://news.sky.com/story/1410434/britain-seeks-to-wipe-out-tuberculosis

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UK health chiefs have launched a £11.5m plan to try to wipe out tuberculosis in Britain, which has the second highest rate of the lung disease among Western European countries.

The plan will see Public Health England work with the NHS to improve access to screening, testing and treatment services as well as outreach programmes such as 'Find and Treat' mobile health units.

Paul Cosford, a PHE director, said: "TB should be consigned to the past, and yet it is occurring in England at higher rates than most of Western Europe."

Bruce Keogh, NHS England's medical director, said: "Our goal is to eliminate TB as a public health problem."

Often thought of as a disease of the past, when it was dubbed "the white plague" for rendering its victims pale and feverish, TB has stubbornly persisted in Britain.

It occurs mainly in areas of poverty and deprivation. The bacterial disease is hard to treat and contagious, passing on via the coughs and sneezes of an infected person.

In 2013, 7,290 TB cases were reported in England, an incidence of 13.5 cases per 100,000 of the population.

TB cases are concentrated in urban "hot spots" including London, Leicester, Birmingham, Luton, Manchester and Coventry.

PHE officials say TB clinics in London manage more cases a year than those in all other western European capitals together.

Drug resistant TB is also an increasing problem, with cases of multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB rising from 28 cases in England in 2000, to 68 in 2013.

And before you challenge it...Just LOOK where the major "hot spots" are.

where do they manage to "magic up" £11.5 million???  OH I forgot...never mind our own cancer sufferers or our young and elderly...OR indeed our injured awaiting emergency care.....